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| 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
| June 19 | With Hisham Matar at the London Review
Bookshop Click Here. |
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| May 29 | With Henning Mankell at Hay-on-Wye Click Here. |
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| May 27 | Presentation: Fabricating the Truth:
the Politics of Representation Palazzo Comitini (Sala Martorana), Palermo |
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| May19-20 | Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Launch and Conference, Doha | |||||||||||||||
| April 28 | In Conversation with Samia Mehrez, Translation, American University in Cairo | |||||||||||||||
| April 12 | In Conversation with Caroline Rooney, Literature and Modernity, Cairo University | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 23- Apr 2 | India Tour – information from womenunltd@vsnl.net | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 15 | Barnard College Symposium, Dubai | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 10-13 | Emirates Airlines Book Festival, Dubai | |||||||||||||||
| Feb 28 | Keynote Speech at International Publishers' Association Symposium, Abu Dhabi | |||||||||||||||
| Feb 7 | Book signing at al-Shurouk Bookshop, Zamalek | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nov 26 | Launched A World I Loved and introduced Mariam Said and Najla Said at the Mosaic Rooms, London | |||||||||||||||
| Nov 19-24 | AiM Biennale, Morocco Click here. |
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| Oct 8 | Launch: Egypt, the Moment of Change at SOAS | |||||||||||||||
| Oct 6 | Wimbledon Bookfest Click here. |
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| Jul 30 | Bloomsbury/Qatar Literary Club (London) Qatar Tribune Saudi Gazette Gulf Times |
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| Jul 11 | Oxfam Bookfest (Cheltenham) |
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| Jul 8 | British Council Panel on Cultural Leadership | |||||||||||||||
| Jun 5-9 | Venice, The First Palestinian Pavilion at the Biennale | |||||||||||||||
| May 22-29 | PALFEST 09. Click here. |
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| May 6 | "Literature as Resistance",
University of Hull, Annual Lecture |
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| Apr 17 | University of Exeter conference: Britain and the Muslim World | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 30 | Alwan for the Arts (NY):
Reading and Discussion: Jean Genet's "Un Captif Amoureux" (Prisoner of Love) with an Introduction by Ahdaf Soueif Click here. |
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| Mar 12 | Guest on the James Zogby show, broadcast
on LinkTV & AbuDhabi TV Click here. |
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| Mar 9 | "A
Literary Celebration" Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. |
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| Mar 7 | "In Other
Words: Expatriate Arab Literature" Kennedy Centre, Washington
DC. |
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| Mar 6 | Judson Memorial Church, New York: "The
Art of Resistance: Culture and the Boycott of Israel",
panel with Omar Barghouti and Remi Kanazi. Moustafa Bayoumi moderating. This is the closing panel of "Israeli Apartheid Week" taking place in New York City and more than 40 cities around the world. Click here. |
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| Mar 5 | Moderator: "Migration, Exile and the Search for Identity." Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. | |||||||||||||||
| Feb 23 | Gala Opening "Arabesque:
Art of the Arab World," Kennedy Centre for the Performing
Arts, Washington DC. |
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| Jan 24 | Cairo Book Fair: |
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| Jan 23 | Cairo Book Fair: 14.00 - 14.45: Literary cafe: Hall 15A, UK Stand 16.30 - 18.00: Panelist, Inspiration from Other Cultures |
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| Jan 22 | Cairo Book Fair: Chair, Engaging Young People with Ancient Egypt 15.00 - 17.15 Hall 15, 6 October Building |
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| 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nov 24-28 | The Map of Love on the Guardian Book Club, week1, week2 , week3 | |||||||||||||||
| Nov 17 | Royal Society of Literature, London, Panel on The Arabian Nights with Marina Warner | |||||||||||||||
| Nov 14 | Guest Speaker, Welfare Association, Dubai, photo | |||||||||||||||
| Nov 6 | Palfest 09 Launch, photo | |||||||||||||||
| Oct 6 | Presentation at Shaikh Ebrahim Bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research, Bahrain. photo | |||||||||||||||
| Jul 9 | Hon DLitt from Exeter University Click here & here to read related articles Click here to listen to Ahdaf's speech |
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| Jul 5 | "Literature as Resistance" with Jacqueline Rose | |||||||||||||||
| Jul 4 | "Late at the Tate" with Francine Stock | |||||||||||||||
| May 25 | Speaking for al-Mawred, Beirut | |||||||||||||||
| May 23 | Speaking for al-Mawred, Cairo | |||||||||||||||
| May 16 | 'Front Row' review of Caramel (BBC Radio 4) | |||||||||||||||
| May 7-11 | Palestine Festival of Literature. http://www.palestinelitfest.org |
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| Apr 24 | Introduces "Genet in Chatilla",
Palestine Film Festival, Barbican, London. http://www.palestinefilm.org/2008/synopsis.asp#14 |
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| Apr 18 | Inaugurates the Palestine Film
Festival at the Barbican, London. http://www.palestinefilm.org/ |
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| Apr 4 | Conversation at the Alhambra Hay Festival @ 12.00 - 13.00 http://www.hayfestival.com/alhambra/programme-fri.html |
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| Mar 24 | "Nightwaves" 22:15-23:00
(Radio 3) Ahdaf talks about Shamm el-Nesim http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/nightwaves/pip/7jiap |
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| Mar 18 | Gives the Eton Award for best essay on Arab subject, Eton, UK. | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 10 | Keynote address at
the International prize for Arabic Fiction in Abu Dhabi. Photo |
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| Mar 5 | The British International
School in Cairo presents an evening "conversation" with Dr.
Ahdaf Soueif Casbon Hall @ 7pm. |
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| Jan 15 | Lecture titled "There is no 'I' " at the De Burne cultural centre in Brussels | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dec 7 | Palestine Solidarity Campaign Christmas Concert |
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| Nov 30 | RHYTHMS OF PEACE CONCERT Click Here. |
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| Nov 15 | SOAS Palestine Society & LSESU Palestine Society: |
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| Nov 8 | Ahdaf took part in Question Time on BBC 1 Click Here. |
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| Jul 4-8 | Festa Literaria International de Parati (FLIP) |
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| Jun 23 | 4pm: Memorial
to the Iraq War: Ahdaf Soueif at the Nash Room, ICA, London Click Here. |
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| May 21 | 6.30 SOAS - Conversation with Omar al-Qattan,
Haim Bresheeth and Laleh Khalili Khalili Lecture Theatre, Thomhaugh Street, Russell Square, London Click Here. |
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| Apr 27 | Opened the Palestine Film Festival,
the Barbican, London Click Here. |
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| Apr 25 |
Chaired the Q&A session following the screening of the film "SINCE YOU LEFT" by Director Mohammed Bakri - at Whirled Cinema, London. Click Here. |
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| Apr 17 | London Book Fair Seminars - Wicked Issues 2 : A Spotlight on Egypt: Cultural Bridges and the Translation of Arabic Literature Click Here. |
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| Mar 17 | Helped celebrate Diwan Bookshop's fifth birthday, Cairo Opera House | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 7 | Book signing at the Diwan Bookshop, Cairo | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nov 26 | Attended the Camden Palestine festival
3:00-6:00 pm . This is a celebration of Palestinian culture and an opportunity to update activists on the situation in Palestine. Mian speaker: Dr. Azzam Tamimi. |
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| Oct 31 | Edward Said Memorial Lecture at University of Warwick UK. Event's blurb. |
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| Oct 13 | Reading (with
Palestinian poet, Mourid Barghouti) at the Palestine Festival, Manchester. |
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| Oct 3 | Reading for Wasafiri at the open University. | |||||||||||||||
| Aug 26 | Reading from her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum. | |||||||||||||||
| Apl 21 | Opened the Palestine Film Festival
at the Barbican, London. Click Here. |
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| Apr 6 | A public lecture at the American University of Cairo. Click Here. Photos |
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| Mar 30 | A public lecture at the American
University of Beirut. Click Here. |
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| Mar 23 | A benefit for MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians). |
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| Feb 9 | The Amnesty International lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sep 10 | Addressed the Freshman class of Georgetown University Click Here. |
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| Jun 24 | Ahdaf Introduced Barones Uddin at the Kufa Gallery on behalf of al-Multaqa al-Thaqafi al-Arabi. | |||||||||||||||
| Words Without Borders will be published in the Autumn. Ahdaf Soueif introduces Hassan Khader and translates his essay "Splinters of Reality and Glass". For Words Without Borders see: Click Here. |
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| Baghdad Burning,
by Riverbend will be published by The Feminist Press, New York in the Autumn. Preface by Ahdaf Soueif. Riverbend's Blogspot is on Click Here. For the book Click Here. |
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| Apr 26-30 | Ahdaf Introduced Barones Uddin at the Kufa Gallery on behalf of al-Multaqa al-Thaqafi al-Arabi. | |||||||||||||||
| Apr 22 | The Barbican, London. Inaugurate Palestine Film Festival Click Here. |
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| Apr 13 | The Lensic Theatre
for the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, USA. Introduce and Conversation
with Amira Hass. Click Here. |
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| Mar 29 | Spoke at the Doha Conference on the Novel and History | |||||||||||||||
| Mar 17 | The Voice Box at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Introduce and Conversation with Helon Habila and Binyavanga Wainana, winners of the Caine Prize for African Writing. For Caine Prize Click Here. | |||||||||||||||
| Feb 26 | Spoke at the Cairo Conference on the Novel and History | |||||||||||||||
| Feb 7 | Al-Jazeera interview(Khairu Jalees) with Khaled al-Hroub and Amjad Nasser. | |||||||||||||||
| Jan | Ahdaf did a reading and discussion at the Cairo Book Fair. This was moderated by Muhammad Salmawi, Editor -in-Chielf of al-Ahram Ebdu. | |||||||||||||||
| Ahdaf held a discussion with the Reading Club in HM Prison, Wandsworth | ||||||||||||||||
